6th grade Yetsuko

A group photograph of the 6th grade class 3 of Mifune Elementary School. It was taken on the graduation day in 1936. The handwritten notes on the backside of the photo mount include "Chihiro Fukuda" in Japanese.

Contains a family photo album compiled by Yetsuko Kiyomi, who is a Kibei Nisei born to Japanese immigrant parents, Misaburo and Sayo Sakai, and raised in the Japanese farming community in the town of Holland, Clarksburg, Yolo County, California. She returned to Kumamoto, Japan where she was educated and resided from pre-war through post-war, and sailed back to the U.S. and married to Genjiro Kiyomi in 1957. The included photographs depict her life in two countries, the U.S. and Japan. Additional materials in the collection include: a group photograph of her 6th grade Mifune Elementary School, her mother's side family trees, and her husband's biographical information.